Re: [Marxism] O, Dialectics!

["Paul H. Dillon" <illonph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Although that might be true, I don't believe Marx ever attempted to explain
all of nature from that perspective.  Marxist theory is social, not physical
theory.  My only argument here being that Marxism is unthinkable without the
dialectic.  If other sciences are also unthinkable without the dialectic,
that's a different issue.

Paul Dillon


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Subject: Re: [Marxism] O, Dialectics!


> If by yes you mean dialectics is only about history, not nature, then NO.
> See most recently the piece in the current Monthly Review on the 20th
> anniversary of The Dialectical Biologist.
> And you can't understand galaxy clusters without dialectics either....
>
> -- "Paul H. Dillon" <illonph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Mulholland" <marc.mulholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition"
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> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 6:04 AM
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>
> > I've never really got my head around 'dialectics', nor had much
> > inclination to
> > try, but my uderstanding was that the application of dialectics to nature
> > was
> > due to Engels' misunderstanding of what Marx was on about (I can
> > sympathise).
> > Marx used dialectics only to understand social-pychology as far as I can
> > gather:
> > it describes a philosophy of history, not a philosophy of everything.
> >
> > --
> > Dr Marc Mulholland
> > CUF, St Catherine's College, Oxford
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